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uncompressing unix Z files on Win32 Peter Wilson 11-16-2005
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Posted by Peter Wilson on November 16, 2005, 8:29 pm
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Can anyone help me? I can't work out how to uncompress .Z files on a win32
machine using perl.

Thanks in advance

Peter




Posted by Reinhard Pagitsch on November 17, 2005, 8:45 am
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Peter Wilson wrote:
> Can anyone help me? I can't work out how to uncompress .Z files on a win32
> machine using perl.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Peter
>
>
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ there is a gunzip.exe included which do
the work.

regards,
Reinhard


Posted by Peter Wilson on November 17, 2005, 11:26 am
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> Peter Wilson wrote:
>> Can anyone help me? I can't work out how to uncompress .Z files on a
>> win32 machine using perl.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> Peter
> http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ there is a gunzip.exe included which do
> the work.
>
> regards,
> Reinhard

Hi

Many thanks but can i do it within perl? The Compress::Zlib does not support
the unix compress format.

Best regards

Peter




Posted by Reinhard Pagitsch on November 17, 2005, 1:20 pm
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Hi,
Peter Wilson wrote:
>
>>Peter Wilson wrote:
>>
>>>Can anyone help me? I can't work out how to uncompress .Z files on a
>>>win32 machine using perl.
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance
>>>
>>>Peter
>>
>>http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ there is a gunzip.exe included which do
>>the work.
>>
>>regards,
>>Reinhard
>
>
> Hi
>
> Many thanks but can i do it within perl? The Compress::Zlib does not support
> the unix compress format.

Only if you want to use system() or backticks.

Like
system("gunzip.exe", "file.Z");
or
$ret = `gunzip.exe file.Z`;



>
> Best regards
>
> Peter
>
>


--
regards,
Reinhard


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